different between pard vs pared

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English parde, from Latin pardus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (párdos), possibly of Iranian origin and related to other Sanskrit and Ancient Greek terms (see leopard).

Noun

pard (plural pards)

1. (archaic) A leopard; a panther.

Etymology 2

From pardner (“partner”), by shortening.

Noun

pard (plural pards)

1. (colloquial) Partner; fellow; Used as a friendly appellation
   • 1882, James Jackson, Tom Terror, the Outlaw:

     He had long believed, in secret, that his old pard, Tom Terror, was the leader of the Thugs that infested the famous pass; he was confident of it now, and it would be safe to say that, as he rode along, his neck did not itch as formerly.

Anagrams

• Drap, drap, prad

Volapük

Noun

pard (nominative plural pards)

1. forgiveness

Declension

English

Verb

pared

1. simple past tense and past participle of pare

Anagrams

• Padre, drape, dreap, padre, raped, repad

Chavacano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish pared (“wall”).

Noun

pared

1. wall

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish pared, from Vulgar Latin *parete(m), from Latin parietem, singular accusative of pari?s, of Proto-Indo-European origin. Compare English paries, French paroi, and Portuguese parede.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa??ed/, [pa??eð?]
• Rhymes: -ed

Noun

pared f (plural paredes)

1. wall, especially of a house or room

   Synonyms: muro; see also Thesaurus:pared

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Chavacano: pared
• ? Tagalog: pader

Related terms

• parietal

Anagrams

• preda
• padre

Further reading

• “pared” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.